Cygwin64 ignoring /etc/passwd shell field?
Jim Burwell
jimb@jsbc.cc
Thu Feb 27 06:40:00 GMT 2014
On 2/26/2014 16:29, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 07:26:59PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> The common case would be for a shell to show up in /etc/shells. Under
>> Fedora adds the shell to /etc/shells when the shell package is
>> installed. I don't see any reason for us to do anything different.
> Rephrasing that in English:
>
> Under Fedora, shells add themselves to /etc/shells file when they are
> installed.
>
> cgf
>
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Yep. At least for common shells. If someone is super security
conscious, they can police their /etc/shells file. But the most common
usage would be to simply allow a shell that's installed, since if a
person installed a shell, you can safely presume they want to use it.
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